Hippocrates of Cos, born around 460 BCE, is the name later tradition attaches to a historical ἱατρός from Cos, of the Ἀσκληπιάδαι, a contemporary of Socrates. His own books are not identified inside the collection that bears his name.
What this site holds is the Hippocratic Corpus: about sixty treatises in Ionic Greek, from the late fifth to the third centuries BCE, by more than one hand, gathered under his name in the Hellenistic period.
Titles already on this page include On the Sacred Disease (Περὶ ἱερῆς νούσου), Airs, Waters, Places, the Epidemics, On the Nature of Man (Περὶ φύσιος ἀνθρώπου), the Oath, Ancient Medicine, Prognostic, the Aphorisms, and the surgical books. Περὶ φύσιος ἀνθρώπου is the treatise later readers made into a four-χυμός scheme; that scheme is not the Corpus as a whole.
The historical Hippocrates’s autograph is lost. A treatise in this collection is a Greek book under a later heading, not his signature.
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